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The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations and rebukes the World War II history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin.
Modern institutions that hold back the rise of barbarism are being weakened, writes Lawrence Davidson.